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I'm out of breath and damp from my flight through the city river when I land on the rooftop and I can hear Serina's wings flutter behind me. There's a moment of wings beating and then footsteps not a moment later - she's changed back into her human form, then.
Shade's kneeling in front of the girl - young woman? It's hard to tell her age from here - and he's speaking softly to her. He glances at me, concern on his face, when he sees that I'm wet. He knows about my thing with water but I wave him off. I'm fine. I'll freak out later about being in all that water, throw up a few times and then go hug Mr. Muffins for a while.
Mr. Muffins hates when my phobias rear up during a job and I figure I probably better pick up some tuna on the way home.
Titan's staring over the side of the building at the large, now thoroughly deactivated body of the mechanical spider. I go to join him but stop at a strange sound.
I turn and see Serina, fully human with no beak or wings in sight, giggling to herself.
"What's so funny?" I ask. You can never help but suspect concussion when someone unexpectedly starts to giggle.
Or beginning to turn evil. That's always a concern, too.
"I could not help but hear from the street," she says, the laughter starting to build, "someone go 'Holy shit, my car!' in the most freaked out tone of voice."
It isn't funny. Property damage is never funny. But I just went for a swim in a river that properly features into at least three or four origin stories, battled a giant mechanical spider and Ser's laughter is damn infectious.
Pretty soon, we're standing only because we're holding each other up. I'm clinging to her shoulders with the avian smell that is uniquely her washing over me as we howl with laughter. The guys simply watch, far too afraid to approach us, as the former victim begins to giggle, too.
Concussion, going evil, who cares? I just brought down a MECHANICAL SPIDER that was threatening the harbor. My life is awesome.
(Iiii will stop after this, promise, because I do need to actually a) work and b) write things in order instead of snippets from my head and c) figure out which tense worse better and stick to it.)
Shade's kneeling in front of the girl - young woman? It's hard to tell her age from here - and he's speaking softly to her. He glances at me, concern on his face, when he sees that I'm wet. He knows about my thing with water but I wave him off. I'm fine. I'll freak out later about being in all that water, throw up a few times and then go hug Mr. Muffins for a while.
Mr. Muffins hates when my phobias rear up during a job and I figure I probably better pick up some tuna on the way home.
Titan's staring over the side of the building at the large, now thoroughly deactivated body of the mechanical spider. I go to join him but stop at a strange sound.
I turn and see Serina, fully human with no beak or wings in sight, giggling to herself.
"What's so funny?" I ask. You can never help but suspect concussion when someone unexpectedly starts to giggle.
Or beginning to turn evil. That's always a concern, too.
"I could not help but hear from the street," she says, the laughter starting to build, "someone go 'Holy shit, my car!' in the most freaked out tone of voice."
It isn't funny. Property damage is never funny. But I just went for a swim in a river that properly features into at least three or four origin stories, battled a giant mechanical spider and Ser's laughter is damn infectious.
Pretty soon, we're standing only because we're holding each other up. I'm clinging to her shoulders with the avian smell that is uniquely her washing over me as we howl with laughter. The guys simply watch, far too afraid to approach us, as the former victim begins to giggle, too.
Concussion, going evil, who cares? I just brought down a MECHANICAL SPIDER that was threatening the harbor. My life is awesome.
(Iiii will stop after this, promise, because I do need to actually a) work and b) write things in order instead of snippets from my head and c) figure out which tense worse better and stick to it.)